A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Friday sided with civil rights groups that sued the Trump administration over an executive order requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. U.S.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the proof-of-citizenship directive is a violation of the separation of ...

The judge wrote that election regulation powers belong to Congress and the states, not the president, and permanently barred the U.S. Election Assistance Commission from enforcing the requirement.

The comments came at the sentencing of a former Jan. 6 defendant who was arrested in 2023 after he showed up to Barack Obama's neighborhood carrying weapons.